Sigmund Freud Quotes

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

I think everyone is born 100 percent ego, and after that it's just adjustment.

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

Where id was, there ego shall be.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

As a child, a person builds up an egoic sense - the child has a name, has an "I," has a mind. But then, to awaken, a person needs to completely transcend that sense of ego.

The child is born with a Self but not with an ego. The child develops the ego. As he becomes more and more social and related, ego develops. This ego is just on your periphery where you are related with others - just on the boundary of your being. So ego is the periphery of your being, and Self is the center. The child is born with a Self, but unaware. He is a Self, but he is not conscious of the Self.

One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.

The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks.

I definitely don't think of myself as being an influence.

People know what they see but they don't know what's happening inside. If you want to know who you are and how you feel about yourself, take a look at your environment.

The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.

And I, uh, I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was.

It's normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self's agenda.

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

I don't think of myself as a role model.

I don't find myself intriguing.

I'm an external person, I'm not than internal at all.

I'm not what I make.